Summer 2015 is shaping up to be a memorable one thanks to contenders new and old stepping up to the plate. But while young bloods like A$AP Rocky and Chance The Rapper are experimenting with sound, veteran MCs are finding new life in the old school.

Though he’s been known as a Diplomats MC and proud Harlem native for two decades, Jim Jones takes a trip to South Beach for his latest release, the Vampire Life Presents: Miami Vampin' mixtape. The Dipset don stakes his claim in America’s sexiest city with a mixture of tried and true trunk rattlers and laid-back cuts on the 16-track tape.

Last time fans heard solo material from Jones, he dropped the We Own The Night Pt. 2: Memoirs Of A Hustler EP in September of 2014. Since then, Jones embarked on the Pledge of Allegiance Dipset Reunion Tour in February 2015 with fellow Diplomats Cam'ron, Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey. So after months of touring, it's safe to say Jones wanted a vacation. The MC continues to tie in his new music with the release of his Vampire Life clothing line and asserts his ownership over a city up for grabs. Even the cover art for turns the city on its head by using the same colorways as the Miami Marlins baseball team.

Dropping the tape on the eve of Memorial Day weekend, Jimmy made sure we all knew what he's got in store for summer 2015. Chronicling days and nights around North Miami and South Beach, Capo made it clear when he touches down, he's running the sunshine state.

“LeBron left and I came,” Jones raps on the intro “Pull Up.” “Pocket full of hunnid beans, we them niggas on the scene.”

The mixtape features a few guest verses from newcomers Ball Greezy, YD and Zoey Dollaz who clearly know to hold their own against Capo. Though Jones promises, "We ready for war more than every before/We been through some shit, you could never endure," Zoey Dollaz drops an especially dope verse in "On the Set": "Nigga I done came up on a check/Name ain't Keith how I make bitches sweat/'Member I was broke living in the projects?/Now a nigga on now, they saying I got next."

The production on the tape is drenched in that suave yet action-packed Miami mood. Jones raps in pace with rapid, bass-heavy beats a la a Miami Vice chase scenes as easily as he slows things down for the retrospective "Keep It 100." They even managed to fit in a skit of Miami locals talking in broken Creole.

With a mix of New York grit and Miami finesse, Miami Vampin isn't anything groundbreaking, but it will be a solid soundtrack for mobbin’ with your clique this summer. —Sidney Madden

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